Posted on 12/21/2012 1:14:01 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
Last year on the 50th anniversary of the creation of the contraceptive pill its inventor Carl Djerassi spoke of the coming dramatic changes to reproductive options -- of the technologies that will have just as big an impact on society in the 50 years to come.
After sex without reproduction, reproduction without sex.
In an article in the UK's "traditional values" tabloid, the Daily Mail, titled "A Terrifying Future for Female Fertility," Djerassi said, "There are an enormous number of well-educated, proficient women who, when facing the biological clock, first pay attention to their professional ambitions...in the next 20 years, more young people will freeze their eggs and [sperm] in their 20s, and bank them for later use. They will do away with the need for contraception by being sterilised, and withdraw their eggs and sperm from the bank when they are ready to have a child via IVF."
That is certainly one option as we develop greater capabilities to store eggs more reliably and safely so that they are not damaged by the freezing/thawing process meant to preserve them. But in the next 20 years, there could be other developments on their way to the clinic. For example -- also to avert damage -- freezing strips of ovarian tissue instead of eggs, or tapping into recently identified reserves of ovarian stem cells that could be turned into a fresh supply of eggs for a woman, at any age; or even creating to order eggs (or sperm) from skin or bone marrow stem cells of men and women.
Early experiments with mice have shown that both sperm and eggs can be generated from the stem cells of males...
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If humans are created and allowed to develop in a tube, they will have severe problems in life. Humans need to develop inside of their mother, who is aware of them and interacts with them as all pregnant mothers do. Humans need to be born in a loving family, consisting of a nurturing mother and a father who protects the family and who goes out and brings home the bacon.
Trying to make sterile machines out of us will have disastrous consequences for the human race.
Ohhhhh! Not supposed to say things like that! (too damn bad. I said it)
We already have sex without reproduction, which was also supposed to be "liberating."
Russia too. I remember reading that the birthrate was so low that the government was paying couples to have kids.
Again... All those books and movies where meant to be warnings, not instruction manuals.
I know you meant it as sarcasm, but they’re already between parents and government school attending children on the issues of contraception and abortion, not to mention instructing children on what constitutes a family.
Thes so called scientists are screwing around with nature that is way above their pay grade.
Aldous Huxley wrote on of the most prescient books of the 20th century. All we lack are artificial wombs. It fits their notion of human beings as organic machines.
And what better way for the State to claim full ownership of each person than to eliminate those pesky “parents” that keep claiming some sort of bond with their children.
So many orphans are wounded souls. I think of Marilyn Monroe, as one of the most famous of neglected children.
Google the author.
She is just another stupid, atheistic progressive.
The longer they go to school, the more brainwashed and therefore unthinking they become.
Also notice she has her own web page.
I suspect that, like Singer of Princeton, she is just another attention whore seeking fame and fortune by attempting to shock the ‘peasantry.’
Imagine the terrorist potential. Kill someone’s biological future by blowing up the lab or simply cutting power to the freezers holding the unborn children of these career women who are now sterilized.
Yes. And they die unloved and alone. Buying a baby off the shelf will not change that.
And by "perverse" I mean: twisted away from sanity, mind, heart, soul, and humanity.
“Frankenstein” was a great book that should be required reading for schoolchildren; they can tout it as an early female author for the PC crowd, then let children see what happens when man messes with nature...
If humans are created and allowed to develop in a tube, they will have severe problems in life. Humans need to develop inside of their mother, who is aware of them and interacts with them as all pregnant mothers do. ...”Humans need to be born in a loving family, consisting of a nurturing mother and a father who protects the family and who goes out and brings home the bacon.
Trying to make sterile machines out of us will have disastrous consequences for the human race.
Ohhhhh! Not supposed to say things like that! (too damn bad. I said it)”...
I do not know where or when, but Mother Nature is going to roar one of these days and it is not going to be fun to experience.
And From Kipling
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
...On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
Yep. Very Orwellian to call it “liberating”.
Brave New World indeed.
It can’t happen here!
Already is
“sounds terrifying”
the real world that is
Always the worst enemy of leftists
Indeed! Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931, envisioning that mad world some 600 years in the future. By the 1950's, he admitted he may have been off and it was happening a lot sooner, some of it happening then. He envisioned a portrait of a future world of instant nonsensical news, goods and resources are plentiful, children are created outside the womb in hatcheries and brainwashed in their education, citizens are conditioned to value consumption, and people enjoy drugs and recreational sex.
To what degree is Japan’s problem it’s lack of affordable housing? If they stopped giving farmers so much protection and built a lot more housing, families could get apartments larger than a rabbit hutch and feel comfortable having two kids instead of literally squeezing in one.
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